Audi Ag

Volkswagen Ag

Ballard Power Systems Corporation

Darcy McGowan

Ian Stewart

Emerson Richard Gallagher

Emerson Gallagher

A sealed membrane electrode assembly (MEA) and a method of sealing the MEA comprises the steps of providing a frame around a periphery of the MEA to form a framed MEA; providing a through-hole in the frame; placing the framed MEA into a seal mold, the seal mold comprising a reservoir region, a seal bead region, and at least one runner region; feeding a flow-processable seal material into the reservoir region in the seal mold that is aligned with the throughhole in the frame; feeding the flow-processable seal material from the reservoir region to the seal bead region through the at least one runner region; wherein a hydraulic diameter of the at least one runner region is less than a hydraulic diameter of the reservoir region.

Seal for solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell

A seal () for a fuel cell (), which includes multiple bipolar plates () and at least one membrane electrode assembly (), the seal () having a seal body () surrounding a free inner chamber () is provided. It is provided that at least two flow barriers () pointing into the inner chamber () are formed as a single piece with the seal body (), the flow barriers () being situated at a distance from the seal body () by at least one connecting element ().

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